Amanda Palmer can go... god I'm so fucking pissed

[la_vie_noire]

Amazing sparkymonster makes the post that will saves us a lot of trouble from stupid people:

A lesson in good vs. bad irony thanks to Amanda Palmer. (Very triggering about racist violence and pictures of bodies.)

Not that big fan of Gaga here, but seriously, Palmer. You, white lady, don't know what you are saying. (And the same goes to the rest of white ladies and gentlemen who, undoubtedly, will come out saying things like "it's not that offensive, you are not reading her right!")

hotcoffeems sums it up on this comment:

Here is the only thing I personally can conclude about why she thinks this is on ANY level O.K.: the KKK and the endemic and brutal evil that it is symptomatic of really means nothing to her except as an abstract. To her, it means little more than another possible tool in the box to use to promote herself as an "artist." There is NO WAY anyone could say such a thing, especially on the heels of that steaming Evelyn Evelyn mess, then follow it up with the "teehee, for those upset about the Klan reference..." Twitter and actually and genuinely comprehend that what the KKK is and represents is a profound evil in the world.

I'm so pissed that I'm reacting pretty badly to other and non-related online arguments I'm having right now. Yeah, avoid me.

Comments

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Wow...when did KKK jokes become funny? Aren't there documentaries she can be forcefed?

[la-vie-noire.livejournal.com]

Well, I don't know if they will work since she is so obviously unaffected by it in name of ART AND IRONY. You know how hipster racism works.

[voz-latina.livejournal.com]

Amanda fails in so so many ways, as does her husband Neil Gaiman, who has a particular appetite for exploiting trans women.

Hipster haters are a total loss, and their hate rarely confines itself to just one -ism. It's almost as if they aren't doing it for "art," but as an expression to show just how far their dominance can extend.

Sociopathy under the guise of "expression," IMHO.

[la-vie-noire.livejournal.com]

And you know what I have been seeing? The "Neil Gaiman is a Saint free of any sin who has done nothing wrong!!" fangirls all around the net since AP started to showing her ass months ago. And seriously, he may have nothing to do with AFP's messes, but if your partner is someone like that... well, I obviously wouldn't have expected the best from him. I know next to nothing of Neil Gaiman because I was never interested in his books or comics, but this? after all the AFP shit? So not surprising.

Of course, they are very privileged people who have no idea about anything, white, cis, able-bodied rich asses who think they will look "cooler and edgy" if they say insulting shit to marginalized people.

Yeah, I was about to call it that.

[rainmage.livejournal.com]

...Wow. Yeaaaaah, she always gave me obnoxious vibes, now she escalated to dumb douchebag.

[la-vie-noire.livejournal.com]

Yeah, and she escalated fast

[parlance.livejournal.com]

Soon as I saw "Amanda Palamer," I sighed. Cotdammit, I'm beginning to think musicians should stay away from Twitter and anything else involving an unfiltered thought process.

[la-vie-noire.livejournal.com]

Ahahaha, you are right, you have experience with that.

[bell]

I was this close to understanding the Evelyn Evelyn fuckup as a mistake that could be made becacause AP didn't know better and was learning the hard way, but after this? She's on my shit list, and she's staying there unless she miraculously unfails herself. :P

[la-vie-noire.livejournal.com]

Hmm, the Evelyn/Evelyn thing... it looked more like hipster trolling and wanting to cause controversy for me. And after her reaction and her apologists.... and then this just completely proves it.